I am happy to announce that the Virginia Adult ESOL Health Literacy Toolkit is now available at http://www.valrc.org/toolkit/index.html. The Toolkit is published by the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center and draws on adult ESOL and healthcare social work knowledge and perspectives. This comprehensive new resource for adult ESOL educators and others interested in health care communication with English language learners contains:
- Reproducible lesson plans and teaching materials on high-interest, hard-to-teach health topics
- Easy-to-read resources on using US health care for English language learners to access directly
- Explanations of health literacy terms, concepts, and issues as they relate to English language learners
- Resources for understanding and explaining US health care to English language learners
- Case studies to see the issues in action
- Resources and tips for accessing affordable care
- Examples and how-to’s for engaging in interdisciplinary health literacy projects
- And more!
Kate Singleton, MSW, LCSW (Toolkit author)
Health Literacy Consultant for Adult Education, Health Care, and Social Work
E-mail: ksingletonlcsw@gmail.com
Twitter: @healthlitkate
Facebook: ESOL Health LIteracy https://www.facebook.com/esolhealthliteracy
Comments
Thank you, Kate!
This is an excellent resource. Thank you for the care and and time you put into developing it!
I would love to plan a discussion, or a series of discussions, on this group, based on some of the pieces from the toolkit.
Would people be interested?
Julie
I appreciate your kind feedback, Julie.
The Toolkit is quite large with lots of parts! I realized in writing it that those features might make it a little daunting for people at first. Additionally, I think it is one of the big challenges of interdisciplinary health literacy work to identify useful health lit resources and ideas from specialties outside of your own and figure out how you might assimilate them into your own work if appropriate. If folks are interested I would be happy to make myself available to discuss on here how various parts of the Toolkit might be helpful to ESOL educators and others working with LEP populations.
A health literacy specialist working outside the US asked me this week what ESOL stands for, so I'll clarify for those who don't know. ESOL = English for Speakers of Other Languages. It's basically synonymous with ESL, which stands for English as a Second Language. Both terms are used widely in the US to describe English language instruction for foreign-born adult learners.
Kate